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Been thinking about growing your own veg this year? Well, you’re in good time to start - and there’ll be plenty of help and advice available from the RHS.

Its Grow Your Own Veg team has developed a special website section where you can decide what to grow, find out when to sow and even brush up on your gardening techniques.

There’s a monthly guide alongside tips on how to keep your plot flourishing. You can sign up for a free newsletter or take part in a veg growing survey. Or, if a problem’s a bit too knotty for you to tackle alone, there’s a forum for seeking advice

There are also regional events that you can attend to pick up tips and advice in person.

There’s nothing as tasty and satisfying as cooking with your own home-grown veg - good luck!

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Interested in learning more about attracting wildlife to your garden? Then you’ll love a new project launched by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).

Following its Big Garden Birdwatch event in January it has set up a Homes for Wildlife campaign.

It says that if you own a garden, or even just a window box, you can take simple, practical steps that will benefit many of our most important birds, mammals and insects. The UK’s largest nature reserve is in your hands…

Sign up to the project (for which you don’t need to be a member) and you’ll get a personalised garden audit that tells you about the most important improvements you can make.

There are straightforward factsheets that you can print out and keep and an advice list that will remind you of simple steps you can take to make your garden more wildlife-friendly.

To learn more about Homes for Wildlife, just click here. Or follow this link to learn more about RSPB membership.

Have you been noticing differences in your garden thanks to wetter summers, warmer winters, stronger winds or other altered growing conditions that are affecting the way your flowers, fruit and veg are developing?

If this is a topic that interests you, then visit the Royal Horticultural Society website, where there’s a section that addresses your concerns and asks about your experiences. Here’s how it’s introduced:

Gardening in a changing climate

The impacts of a changing climate are now firmly at the top of the scientific, political and environmental agendas. But while the big global problems of climate change are addressed in the corridors of power, what are the ramifications for UK horticulture and gardening?

We are considering what our changing climate is likely to mean in terms of what we grow and how we grow it. But it is clear that our gardens will become an increasingly important resource - for ourselves and wildlife. Much still needs to be understood and while no-one yet has all the answers, garden-making and growing plants can be a potent force for good. Read on here…

Visit these pages and you can get advice, discuss the topic with other gardeners via a bulletin board, take a short survey or find out more about the weather. Whatever your interest, there should be something helpful here.

Find out more about climate- and weather-related RHS events >>

Find out about the effects of a changing climate on wildlife >>